So Moses brought their case before the Lord. Numbers 27:5 NASB Their case – At the beginning of chapter 27 in the book of Numbers, certain daughters of in the line of Manasseh, son of Joseph, make a legal claim before Moses and Eleazar. Their argument is that their father died in the wilderness along with…
Now this is the law which Moses set before the sons of Israel; Deuteronomy 4:44 NASB Set before – You want your life to conform to God’s standard, right? You want to know what God wants you to do, and what displeases Him. So, you read your Bible. You think that what it says is…
For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe. 1 Thessalonians 2:13 NASB Accepted – This verse raises several important questions: 1) Why did…
O come, let us sing for joy to the Lord, let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.Psalm 95:1 NASB Shout joyfully– Put on a happy face. That seems to be the intention here, so the translators offer a positive rendering of the verb by adding “joyfully.” The actual Hebrew is simply the verb rūaʿ, which can mean…
But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed 700 charioteers of the Arameans and 40,000 horsemen and struck down Shobach the commander of their army, and he died there. 2 Samuel 10:18 NASB 700 – I recently gave a lecture on the stories of David and Solomon. In the course of that lecture, I talked about…
“They have acted corruptly toward Him, they are not His children, because of their defect; but are a perverse and crooked generation.” Deuteronomy 32:5 NASB Not His children – Jeffrey Tigay points out that the syntax of this verse is particularly difficult. He suggests that it is the result of scribal error and he offers a few…
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, 2 to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah . . . Jeremiah 1:1-2a NASB Came – How do you read the Bible? Obviously I am not asking about the…
Then what had been spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; and she refused to be comforted, because they were no more.” Matthew 2:17-18 NASB Was fulfilled – It should be obvious. Herod’s brutal slaughtering of the infants in Bethlehem…
You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. Deuteronomy 4:2 NASB The Three I’s Add/Take away – There can be no doubt that apostolic writers knew this dictum from Moses. There…
Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Phanuel, and many (other) holy angels, without number, go out of that house. With them was the Beginning of Days; his head was like white and pure wool, and his garment was indescribable . . . . That Beginning of Days came with Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Phanuel, and thousands of myriads of…
